Story map

Mountains, hearth-fire, water, and voices that still move at night. The figures who carry them wait along the paths.

Pinch or ± · touch a figure

Spine · ordered walk

Attested tie

Guide step

Story paths

Storm, house, water, hearth, mountain — cycles under the same sky.

The turning year

The year turns by fire and feast — spring yards, saint days, sun, and the midwinter log.

Tales that touch this path

Same night, other tellings.

The walk

Figure

Old Wife's Days (calendar hinge)

The Old Wife’s Days — a short hard spell of weather at winter’s end, told as calendar lore.

From — After the log, the Old Wife’s last cold days close winter.

Elsie Old Wife’s Days: Ditët e Plakës (Mar 29–30, Apr 1), last cold of winter / Ice Saints. Not the same as Nëna e Vatrës; not Rollca Plaka the witch.

Tales that touch this stop

Ties

— seasonal solar adjacency
— calendar fire soft
— winter’s end

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